Word: causticity
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...Army in 1917, when Camp Stanley was set up on the outskirts of Lexington. Day after Miss Breazing's death, the Lexington Herald ran her obit on the front page. All copies were sold by 10 a.m., brought private speculators $1 apiece, provoked many a caustic phone call (Sample: "Is it true that to get on the front page of the Herald one must operate a house of ill repute...
...With a caustic reference to Hoovers past visits to nightclubs ("a Stork Club detective"), Congressman Vito Marcantonio of New York declared: "The FBI should be stopped from engaging in inquisitionlike tactics in handling crimes no more serious than stealing a bag of peanuts...
...subscribe to TIME, do not entirely agree with my caustic roommate...
...poor are getting poorer," Fritz Thyssen, German steel tycoon, lamented last week in a caustic interview on Nazi Germany. He spoke to New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews at Locarno, Switzerland, whither he fled last November...
Shrewd Ben Franklin was rarely outsmarted. One of the few men who did fool him was a caustic, tyrannical schoolmaster named David James Dove, whom he brought to the colonies from England in 1750 to teach at his Philadelphia Academy (later the University of Pennsylvania). Schoolmaster Dove quietly laid plans to found a rival school of his own, was fired when Ben Franklin discovered his plan. Thereupon, in 1761, Schoolmaster Dove helped start the Germantown Academy, today one of the oldest U. S. schools...